Royal consort chaos

BANGKOK: Thailand’s palace website crashed this week after it released unprecedented pictures of the king’s consort in a fighter jet, wearing a crop top and dressed in combat fatigues with him and the royal poodle.

The unusually candid pictures of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s consort, 34-year-old Major-General Sineenat

Wongvajirapakdi, were released along with her official biography.

A palace official said the website was being fixed because of the volume of traffic.

The king named Sineenat, a former nurse and his bodyguard, as Royal Noble Consort last month.